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Bank of America Building vs. Cloud, Midtown Atlanta
Bank of America Building vs. Cloud, Midtown Atlanta Enlargement Looks really nice enlarged and against black (above link).
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Halloween, Sex, and The Atomic Frontier – The Hanford Project, 1951
Historic photos from the Hanford Project Atomic Frontier – It’s Halloween and the woman in blue is thinking, “What if I’m having sex when the bomb drops? Will I go to hell?” Enlargement The mind-set was not, “What if I die before I (fill in the blank).” The mind-set was instead, “What if the bomb…
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SoNo Atlanta Skyscraper View (Where Midtown Morphs into Downtown)
SoNo Atlanta Skyscraper View (Where Midtown Morphs into Downtown) Enlargement The Imperial Hotel in front. Sacred Heart. Suntrust Plaza on the right. 191 Peachtree Tower is to the rear.
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In the Name of Research I Visit the International UFO Museum, Part 3
[highlight highlight_type=”italic” color=”yellow”]Part three in a series of posts on subjects found in the book Thunderbird and the Ball of Twine. For part two click here. We are still in Roswell, New Mexico, at the International UFO Museum and Research Center, at 114 Main Street, but now we are no longer loitering on the sidewalk…
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Two Hawks Buzzing the Bank of America Building, Midtown Atlanta
Two Hawks Buzzing the Bank of America Building, Midtown Atlanta, Oct 2012 Enlargment At least I suppose they are hawks and not buzzards. We do have hawks living in the area and occasionally they pick off the pigeons.
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Downtown Atlanta, Peachtree Center North Skywalk
Downtown Atlanta, Peachtree Center North Skywalk Enlargement
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The Atomic Frontier Meets Slim Pickens at the Boy Scout Circus
Staged Mock Air Raids on the Atomic Frontier Were for the Purpose of…? For education, entertainment, and a likely badge, Boy Scouts of the Richland, Washington Atomic Frontier engineered the spectacle of a mock air raid for the Boy Scout circus in 1952. Though Camp Hanford was installed in 1951 to provide air protection for…
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Downtown Atlanta Skyscraper Jumble
Enlargement The photo shows the Candler Building (foreground), the Marriott Residence Building, the Georgia Pacific Building, and in the Background the Equitable Building.
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The Hard Rock Cafe, Downtown Atlanta
The Hard Rock Cafe in Downtown Atlanta, Georgia The Hard Rock Cafe, Downtown Atlanta Enlargement
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Downtown Atlanta – The Georgia Pacific Building
The Georgia Pacific Building in Downtown Atlanta Downtown Atlanta – The Georgia Pacific Building Enlargement A subtle photo from 2007 with windows in a variety of b&w values. The Candler Building can be barely glimpsed on the right.
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My Noire Photo Interpretation of 191 Peachtree Tower
191 Peachtree Tower, Atlanta, Georgia Enlargement 191 Peachtree Tower in Atlanta’s downtown on an October late afternoon in 2007. 50 stories, completed in 1990. I’ve pulled out some photos from that shoot I never bothered to work on before and have also some nice pics of the work going on at the time in the…
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The Little Red Plutonium-Porting Wagons of the Hanford Project
Historic Photos from Hanford Declassified Documents of The Little Red Plutonium-Porting Wagons of the Hanford Project Yesterday, I posted a March 28, 1955 article from Life magazine, “Hot Work for Toys at Hanford”, on the use of toy trains and wagons to carry too-hot-to-handle radioactive materials from point to point at the Hanford Project in…